Dinner, B&B

Zöe Collins is a mildly chaotic travel writer whose professional comfort zone runs firmly from cream teas to characterful Bed & Breakfasts. While researching an aviation-themed heritage tour in rural Devon, she captures a series of photographs at a local air show that seem trivial at first. Within hours, a pilot is dead, another has vanished, and Zöe realises she may have documented the final moments of a murder. What begins as an awkward phone call to the police draws Zöe into a widening investigation that spans military aviation, corporate corruption, and counterfeit aircraft components quietly infiltrating global supply chains. Teaming up with Jake Morrison, a guarded investigator with ties to military intelligence, and Rebecca Rhodes, an uncompromising journalist pursuing her own explosive aviation story, Zöe becomes an unwilling but crucial witness. As their separate threads converge, the trio uncover a sophisticated international conspiracy led by Elena Vasquez and her network, whose counterfeit parts threaten both civilian and military aircraft worldwide. Surveillance tightens, intimidation escalates, and Zöe is forced to confront the cost of telling the truth when powerful interests prefer silence. From quiet English B&Bs to high-security briefings in the U.S., and finally to a public reckoning that sends shockwaves through the aviation industry, Zöe transforms from accidental observer to deliberate truth-teller. In the aftermath, she emerges with a new career, a new partnership, and the uneasy knowledge that once you've seen how fragile safety really is, you can never unsee it. The Accidental Witness: Dinner Bed & Breakfast blends thriller, investigative journalism, and dry humour into a story about ordinary people who stumble into extraordinary danger and choose courage anyway.